skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If RH thought something was fishy, shouldn't they have completely halted GME trading instead of only disabling buys?
Hopefully others realize that downvotes on HN do not change the reality of how market makers function.
RH are scummy but reloading just beforehand seems way too risky by citadel and more like a made-up for attention story.
They realized that 25 years ago. Then, 10 years ago they realized that time zones and soft skills are also a thing.
Good thing people can still buy on RH, in order to close their short positions, because guess what? They restricted opening of new positions, meaning that if you have no position, you cannot buy or sell. It is common, it is normal, several other brokerages took similar actions, and it is commonly done when it looks like something illegal might be happening.
QtWebEngine already detects a variety of places automatically:

https://github.com/qt/qtwebengine/blob/v5.15.2/src/core/cont...

So that flag is only needed if the file is in some strange place (like I'm guessing is the case on NixOS).
I see no reason why shorts should be allowed to go beyond 100% of float.
I disagree. I think because the incremental cost for another copy of some already written software is 0, the perceived value is 0. It's the general problem with copyright IMHO.

It's not like a widget, that there's a value intrinsic to each widget - the value is all in the creating the initial copy of the software and in any ongoing changes people want.

And while for a singular person, perhaps writing FLOSS is charity, but for companies it might well be more payment in kind - i.e. cooperation on making it do things each company wants makes it more valuable for everyone.
Equilibrium is what I expect. That may have a more sharp effect than the math would suggest, though. Bay Area SWE salaries inflated via competition in a way I suspect completely deflates with area pressure off. The cross-effects of a limited pool tend to be multiplicative, not additive.

The fact that the people doing the hiring probably enjoy those salaries too is maybe the biggest counterargument I'd have to my own prediction and the reason I think it'll take a bit to change. I'm firmly convinced that's one of the phenomena that have kept college degrees inflating--cognitive dissonance around admitting you shouldn't perpetuate your own experience.

FWIW, I think a lot of techies would probably love to have the freedom to live wherever they want and make a decent living. The comp gold rush has been fun, but the industry will arguably be better when it's gone. But the transition period--especially for those of us already at FAANGs or similar--that gets spicy.

Personally I'm hoping it means in a decade or so I can pseudo-retire to an easy remote job somewhere cheap enough to be happy on what an easy remote job pays. Given how hard actual early retirement can be to swing nowadays, that'd be a great holdover strategy to have available.
Or perhaps realizing that those amazing things really aren't all that wonderful.

Very few things are an unalloyed good.
Well, the good thing is that now you have a practical platform to not wait for everyone else :).
A shorter jail sentence? Somehow I feel like there is perhaps a less harsh punishment than life in prison but perhaps worse than a fine.
They'll be like: "Technical issue..."
My favourite is wm4's rant about C locales. It's quite impressive.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
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When you look at the state of things, you should realize that things evolved to be this way _for_a_reason_.

What specific reason or reasons might not be clear, but those reasons and forces nevertheless exist.

Calls to return "back to roots" are quite naive, for example, "let's abandon governments and have private police!". No, we have what we have for a reason.

Same with the state of the Internet. "Let's all go back to protocols! Remember gopher? Let's all do that!".

You cannot "unroll" progress. You cannot go back and live like the Amish. Well, you can, in a tiny weird closed community, while the rest of the world continues to march on.
Should I be arrested, even without having caused any accident ever? In your mind, I'm sure the answer is "yes", if you don't care about results, only about violations.

Ah, the old paradox of prevention. We don't need no stinking sea dykes, last storm tide we had was in 1962.
Analyzing and breaking an externally encrypted HDD
Is it optional?
Yeah it's definitely doable. I suppose in addition to the relationships, I especially appreciate having been in the office because it was very early in my career. There's a lot of stuff I know now that I didn't know then about how typical software companies work (where my previous jobs had been very different). I suspect I would've had a much harder time picking up a lot of unspoken understanding if I had been remote right off the bat. Meeting random people (big fan of Donut in Slack now) and being in hallway conversations was a really big deal for me, even though I don't much care for that when I have a choice.
This cycle was called the "Wheel of Reincarnation" in this 1968 paper by Myer and Sutherland about display processors.

http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...
Because nothing happened when wall street bankrupted the country by gambling and needed to be bailed out in 2008, and then paid themselves huge bonuses.
The policy you're quoting is between Microsoft and a business wishing to advertise on it's platform. It is understood that business do read the TOS and contracts of the platforms they sign up with. Users do not. It is still a legal grey area, but more than likely a "no class action lawsuit" clause would be as useful as a paper shield in court.
while I have some sympathy for the "letting retail traders coordinate to cause havoc in the market probably isn't the best thing" argument...

lol fuck these guys, this apparently couldn't have happened to nicer people
These HFT firms hold power over Robinhood - that's what TFA is about. This is actual market manipulation.
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I do think there are stark differences between 2020 and the 2016 elections BUT I still agree with everything you said.
Not so fast: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1354848253729234944

Cruz's antics nearly got AOC killed, she isn't going to forget that.
> So, what's this project about? There's no README nor description nor anything.

It's Xee, a lightweight (and excellent) image viewer for macOS.

That's not the original repo (or author), used to be on google code, moved to bitbucket, then abandoned / sold the project: it was open-source until version 2.2 or something, v3 is is closed source.
You just need a single person who's paying attention and understands these arguable flaws, pitfalls in the status quo system, they get rewarded by being able to get in early - and then they can educate a highly organized and motivated group of retail investors who are happy to rally - especially against a system that has fucked over the majority of people.
Where are you from that you don't have bloodlust for those that wronged you?
My former job was bought by an American company. They had a slack banning the word "slut". This is just the word for "end" or "out of" in Swedish.
Amazon Sidewalk will solve this problem.
I've always wondered how a "post-growth" economy can be financialized, i.e. how the "menu" of short and long positions/instruments would actually be symmetrical. Anyone know?
That is why this project is so important:

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/

Except for Jon Conway, all the other people you mentioned were interviewed.
If other brokers had the mass of users attempting this same trade, it would have been halted there as well. I guess time will tell.. we can't run the experiment over again.

But the fact RH would simply throw its customers away to appease hedge funds tells you something about who's in charge.

To be clear I'm not saying people won't "want" to go somewhere else that let's them trade how they want to trade (though the low friction and UX on RH itself needs to be re-implemented to equate a like for like substitution), and I agree they should and RH deserves to get ruined by users leaving en masse... I'm saying they won't be allowed to do so if another instance of this same dynamic occurs. Additionally, that there are calls for censorship of wsb, the future co-ordination on social media is also in question
1) Because there was just a single "capitol incident", and several BLM riots.

2) So you seriously believe all violence at BLM riots was solely because of false flag white supremacists? Really?

3) Bullshit. Riots are not "democratic process" either - it's people rejecting the established laws (like property rights) and proceeding to do their own thing. I mean they installed an "autonomous zone", how is that not an attack on democracy?
How do I short Robinhood stock?
Thanks! I've used it when the data is itself binned frequency data, which is one way to reduce data volume (e.g. binning 2 weeks of minutely time series data into (hour, percentile) buckets and plotting them as weighted points).

When the number of the bins in the data is not an exact integer multiple of the number of bins in the histogram, adjacent data bins can get mapped to the same histogram bin, resulting in e.g. 2x the data volume in some rows/columns of the histogram.

When a bit of loss of fidelity is acceptable the two solutions I've used are to render the histogram at an exact factor of the number of data bins then set the canvas dimensions to the desired size (relying on the browser to downsample the resulting image), or to use `max` as the reduceOp and render the histogram directly at the intended size.
> In elastics case they were between a rock and a hard place.

More like rock and a very soft place cushioned by wads of cash. Elastic so far has been doing very well fincially. And this isn't some new development from AWS side that Elastic needed to react upon, AWS have been offering ES for over 5 years.
There's a lot of honesty here. It's so nice to read something written without regards to upsetting delicate people or stepping on proverbial toes.

There's a big problem with fandom which prevents many proponents of an OS from hearing any criticism. The GNU/Linux world is full of that. If you don't have the latest, fanciest, most popular whatever, or if you're not spending tons of money, people will be jerks, and the people who actually get things done don't care about others being jerks. There, of course, are good communities, but stereotypes exist because of what's most common.
>> you could just hire from the flyover states, find all the good techies that didn't make the pilgrimage to one of the traditional hotspots

How many are there, though, really?

And what happens when you now have to compete with _every_other_company_ that also wants to hire them?

They'll make more money, good for them. But the majority of companies will just have to settle for hiring C-level talent.
The term 'privileged' almost becomes meaningless when comparing between different countries/cultures. Yes, compared to many in the US, you were 'privileged' with respect to education, because you had free university-level education provided. This is something that is outside the reach of many who want it here, and for some who get it, they get it with burdensome financial strings attached. So..., in that respect, you were privileged. People in the US are 'privileged' in other respects compared to your circumstances. But using the word 'privileged' as some sort of singular distinctive quality doesn't make much sense.
Yeah, it's possible that the extreme stress I was under activated a HERV(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1187282/#:~:tex....) and caused a lasting autoimmune issue.
Interactive Brokers also offers a "Lite" version that is pointed at a similar market to RobinHood (no fees, no comissions). Also worth noting that they run their own clearing house.

https://www1.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=45196

https://www1.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=45500
I use Gandi which supports 2FA, but annoyingly they do not let you disable TOTP if you want to use U2F.
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Do we have real time access to the short interest numbers? My impression is those came from a report that comes out every two weeks?
I think, at this point, we’d be happy to see any actual punishment doled out to the “upper classes”. We know it will never happen, so we wish for absurd things.
For many years I worked for Zillow -- a great company.

Their co-founder was telling a story of how he got into tech and it went something like... my mom made friends at work with another woman with a son about my age and they set up a play date and that's when I met Bill Gates. Co-founder is a great and talented dude but mom's the real MVP there.
wow, this is a very apt explanation.

the best financial advice I ever got was to never ignore conflicts of interest.
This is great, thanks for posting. Can I ask if there is a simple API query I can send a request to? I am building a mega project (which will probably never see light of day - happy to share with you privately) which could probably maybe benefit knowing this info - cheers
> Citadel just lent someone money to close short positions worth a very significant percentage of their total assets?

Yes. Those other assets are presumably uncorrelated to this short position. If they were fire sold, depending on the assets, they could have gotten 20¢ or 30¢ on the dollar.

That discount gives Melvin the incentive to borrow, even at exorbitant rates. It protects the rest of the portfolio. With the bailout, the GameStop loss is capped and eaten by LPs. That sucks. But it sucks less than eating that loss and selling off the rest of the portfolio for peanuts.

> Melvin did not close their shorts(as they said they did)

You're alleging securities fraud. This may be the case! But we have zero evidence of it. And if Citadel and Point72 invested $3bn to aid and abet securities fraud, that would be quite stupid.
As I understand it that's more or less what the older MS Office formats were, just a dump of the entire OLE object representing the document as-is.

I believe SimCity used a similar strategy as well, the .cty and I think SC2k's .s2k formats just dumped the in-memory representation to disk,.
It could've been one of the many trading desks inside Citadel who saw the news early, through publicly available sources (e.g. the RH website), and put on a short position within a few seconds. So the story about Citadel shorting the top could be be simultaneously true and legal/normal. Definitely needs an investigation though.
Hmm. There seems to be a lot of unknowns right now. Do you think the information about how this all went down will come out once it's over?

I'd say most of the wallstreetbets traders still believe Melvin has their position, but you're saying otherwise. Though the still extremely high short interested doesn't seem to make sense if the big losers already exited...
RH goes down. Minutes later there is a ladder driving the price down $100s. Minutes later someone longs $100M position. Take it how you see it. And agree about the risk.
Indeed.

Manually drawn pictures should only be acceptable for depicting future intent, but not for depicting the existing system.

With Glamorous Toolkit we want you to build your own environment specialized for your own system showing what you say is important.

For JS, you can start from here: https://gtoolkit.com/docs/analyzing-js/
> this Rube Goldberg of a file format

Concise, to the point, and a good enough insult as to keep it in file. I love it.
The exchange hasn't done anything, though.

It's only certain retail brokers, and, mystifyingly, mostly the ones who have hedge funds with significant ownership interests.
/r/WallStreetBets is trying something unprecedented in history
Backlash would be even worse. We've already seen a "class action lawsuit" from WSB to Robinhood back in March when RH couldn't execute buy or sell during a few days and people were furious about their options expiring worthless.

People will claim they had no chance to sell GME for $250, after a few days spikes it back down to $20 or so, and they'll claim Robinhood caused them to lose $50k or whatever.
Any proof for that?
> Many countries do this by putting legal limits against gentrification.

What does that even mean? I'm not aware of any country that restricts the change in the income mix of housing, or the renovation of dilapidated housing by new residents.
Most other major retail brokers are also locking out GME, AMC, and co.

For example Interactive Brokers and Revolut have followed suit. I believe Ameritrade is also restricting trading.
This is nothing qutebrowser can fix - DRM/Widevine support is something done entirely by the underlying QtWebEngine and Chromium code.

It's a bit of a pain to set up, but it should be possible to get it to work. Basically, you'll need to get an older Chrome version (corresponding to whatever Qt version you're running), extract the needed .so files from there, and then put them in the right place so QtWebEngine picks them up. Unfortunately, there's almost no feedback when it doesn't work.

Here's a rough guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/jwb90w/how_do_...

Alternatively, someone there reported installing Google Chrome on the same system did help.
A typical experience when I re-implement a technique from an academic paper:

1) Read the paper's high level description and pseudocode.

2) Write some test cases.

3) Write code based on the paper's pseudocode.

4) Observe that my test case results do not match what the authors show.

4a) Fiddle repeatedly with possible ambiguities in the pseudocode-to-real-code translation until test cases match publication. This involves a certain amount of mind reading and speculation. "They said argmax, but there are possible singularities... maybe argmax followed by clamping."

4b) Request source code from the authors. Upon receiving it, find that their real implementation diverges in small but significant ways from the pseudocode that was published. They have mixed actual-code algorithm outputs with incomplete pseudocode algorithm descriptions in the paper.
Unfortunately Xee3 is basically abandoned at this point. MacPaw bought it alongside The Unarchiver and they haven't really been doing anything with it. Last update was three years ago. I wonder if it's just going to stop working in some future macOS version.
This study doesn’t tell me anything.

Couldn’t it be the other way around? That depressed people, people consuming alcohol and smoking are more likely to consume cannabis?

Is it the cause of the problems or just a reaction to those problems?
That's a fair point that the overall volume needs to be considered. And during Apr–Jul it was true that hiring volumes were subdued, and it is likely that onsite-centric companies simply weren't able to hire at all. However, job post volumes exceeded pre-pandemic volumes from August and onwards. This suggests that there was actually a change in behavior. The job post volume charts didn't make it into the article but can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jlLJkZJz3NBeyjylzTYA...
While I love wfh and have done it for the past 20 years, there are some jobs and some times when face to face in an office is far more effective.

I’d love it if my office went to a 1-2 days/week on-site schedule, where face to face time is predictable and regular, and we can all be productive and relatively zoom free the other 3-4 days.

A hybrid approach, if managed right, would be ideal.
You are quite privileged
> SEC fine / lawsuits for that lie are very low

Intentionally making unambiguously false, material and self-serving public statements like that is well beyond fine and lawsuit territory.
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Bitcoin is a bubble in progress. If you want to make money it certainly is a much better asset to speculate with. However, it's a bit late. Most of the easy gains are not available anymore. If you buy now you there is a decent risk that you will have to wait a year.
Realistically a startup needs more than a year or two of runway for one person. It requires several years of runway for several people, plus paying for infrastructure, legal work, marketing etc.
For some reason, it works just fine (at least last time I tested) with QtWebEngine if it's available (e.g. because Chromium/Chrome is installed on the same system).
> The only reason people are buying at those prices is to try to force a short squeeze, to effectively steal money from the hedge funds by forcing them to buy at irrational prices as they get margin called.

Go ahead and explain how that is stealing?
Right, Vladimir Putin is arguably one of the richest men in the world, but none of it is "on the books" as he just has dozens of "state-owned" palaces and mansions throughout Russia.
That's most likely the joke. Of all the choices they pick JPM, which is notoriously corrupt to the bone.
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You don't get to pick to which advertiser your data is sold either. You're just along for the ride with no hands on the wheel.

I'm not defending business models built upon selling their users' data. I'm just saying that this is no surprise, and it was pretty inevitable to happen sooner or later.
For some reason, DRM support works just fine (at least last time I tested) with QtWebEngine if it's available (e.g. because Chromium/Chrome is installed on the same system).
It can be, but a senior who is well-versed in the fundamentals and has some exposure to complimentary tools in other ecosystems is not going to have a problem coming up to speed with those tools.

What they're going to spend more time on is: learning how you decided to solve your problems with your knowledge of those tools and how you decided to fit it all together.
The reddit narrative is wrong. WSB marked their sub private for a little while to address a huge influx of bots and spam. They were only down for maybe an hour or so.
Since no one else mentioned it,

"The entire summer long while buildings burned, and entire cities looted by violent murdering thugs..."

Could you provide some evidence for "entire cities looted by violent murdering thugs"?
The elites of this world should meditate on it, because on the same logic: populism always wins.
Check out /r/nosurf.

Uninstall Reddit clients on all but a single, non-mobile device.

When you stray off the path, don't beat yourself up, and immediately get back onto the path.
This came up a couple months ago. I really wish there was a standard open format that did most of the things PSD does. I had asked the folks at Procreate if they'd design something, since they are sort of a challenger to Photoshop, but they said it wasn't something they wanted to do.
You need inflation to at least match productivity improvements. Otherwise your economy will slow down over time.
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Is this intended only for VM's on GCP, or anywhere?
> Do you think the information about how this all went down will come out once it's over?

I do. This will make partners out of a solid suite of securities lawyers around the country. But we won't have clear answers for at least another 6 months.
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That's my point. Nobody believed AAPL was worth $15/share in 1997. Nobody believes GameStop is worth $400/share today.

The motivations for buying are different.
I periodically (or when I'm about to upgrade either) grab all the tabs from chrome/firefox and save them out to files / org-mode, with things like this https://gist.github.com/philsnow/780b131608878d93e9a8ad37935...